Deepika Padmanabhan @DeepikaPadmanab
Postdoc @Harvard | Political Science PhD @Yale | Language, Political Behaviour, Indian politics: https://t.co/DGuEExALLf Joined September 2013-
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Meet the 2025–2026 affiliates of the Weatherhead Scholars Program (@ScholarsWCFIA)! This program brings together both scholars and practitioners of international affairs. Read more about the program and the incoming cohort at: loom.ly/RCv26pU
Thrilled to continue the young scholar series at the @IdeasofIndia podcast @mercatus, where we invite academic job market candidates working on India to talk about their research. We have a handful of 30-min slots and they fill up within the first few days of announcement.…
In this week's @NewYorker: My profile of Ganesh Devy, who assembled the first Indian survey of languages in a century, and who now lives in Dharwad as a protest against forces who will kill writers and impose religions and languages [1] newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
Helloo Everyone 😃 My book is coming out next year and here is the cover! 9 years since the research project was conceived as an idea and 4 years of PhD-ing at @KingsIndiaInst - sharing the update feels surreal! Thank you ever so much @HurstPublishers! The UK + Europe…
Our latest episode in the 2024 job market series is with @DeepikaPadmanab. Her research focuses on nationalism, language and self-determination with a regional focus in South Asia. Deepika and @srajagopalan talked about how the exposure to dominant national languages like English…
In the latest episode of the 2024 job market series of @IdeasofIndia I speak with @DeepikaPadmanab, a PhD candidate in political science @Yale about how the exposure to dominant national languages like English and Hindi impacts the identity of subnational regional speakers in…
My recent paper update got a fair amount of attention and so I decided to make a twitter thread! The paper studies recruitment at major US and European multinationals to quantify the salience of hiring discrimination in access to top jobs and identify its source…🧵 (1/24)
I think exit polls should not happen or be banned. It is just a TV circus to rake in money from advertisers, dance or sob when the results come.
"Who is afraid of redistribution?" "Political discourse in India normally takes place within cer tain boundaries set by the privileged and powerful. If you over-step these boundaries, expect some trouble." - Jean Drèze in @epw_in.
Exciting to see @Outlookindia's special compendium on the "Dravidian Model," publicised by @mkstalin himself. While acknowledging its noteworthy aspects, I am wary that this narrative often glosses over key issues. #DravidianModel #CriticalAnalysis #SocialJustice #Governance
Our magazine is a growing repository of Indian design and architecture, with stories gathered from observant travellers and informed locals across the country. From time to time, we also publish comics by brilliant artists that tell stories of our contemporary lives.
Delighted to announce that my first book titled "The Smart and the Dumb" on the politics of education in India will be published by @PenguinIndia early 2024. This has been long in the making and I am glad that it'll finally see the light of the day @karthik_venk @kan_writersside
It gives me great satisfaction that decisions I took as a newsroom leader have triggered a furious public debate over terms used to refer to communities that have been oppressed by the Brahminical caste system. Specifically, the usage of 'Lowered Caste' and 'Shudra'. Long 🧵
The ongoing debate on subjective vs. objective measures is important, but it seems to overlook that the two approaches each have their own type of potential bias. A short 🧵👇🏾
The ongoing debate on subjective vs. objective measures is important, but it seems to overlook that the two approaches each have their own type of potential bias. A short 🧵👇🏾
🚨🚨 Excited to announce that my article with Andrés Aponte and @andresdu, "Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians," has just been accepted by the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Full paper: tinyurl.com/46envfry A 🧵 1/8
Last month, @AltNews wrote about the cow vigilantism activities in Haryana. This month we have debunked divisive misinformation targeting Tamil Nadu. Kindly donate to @AltNews to support our work towards strengthening the unity and integrity of India. pages.razorpay.com/altnews
My recent piece, "Welfarism Works, Efficient Implementation Less So", is now available in বাংলা (casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/bangla), தமிழ் (casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/tamil), and हिन्दी (tinyurl.com/iithindi). Thank you @CASIPenn for translating!
The review essay @raghunageswaran & I have been working on for a while now is finally out in @epw_in Policy and Practice of Social Justice in Tamil Nadu 1/n epw.in/journal/2023/6…

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